October 21, 2016

The Waning Days

Your humble blogger is not apathetic or lazy, nor have I sunk into a deep depression regarding the possibility of HildaBeast winning the election. It just happens that I have been keeping my nose to the grindstone to the tune of 60-70 hours a week. At the end of the day, I've just been too exhausted to post. This won't continue; thankfully, it has been an aberration. More on that in the next few days.

I shall not attempt to dissect Wednesday's debate in detail, but would like to make a couple of observations before moving on to other aspects of the presidential election. My first comment is this: The mindless, brainless parroting exhibited by the media jackals was in full swing once again following Wednesday's clash. The hysterical hacks took great umbrage when The Donald stated he would not unequivocally support Hillary as president if she wins on Nov. 8. (At least not right off the bat.) "I will look at it" at that time, Trump said.

In light of widespread reports of attempted voter fraud in multiple states, that was an entirely reasonable position to take. In addition to shenanigans at the city, county and state level, it doesn't take much imagination to think what the Democratic National Committee, Clinton campaign and Obama administration are doing to tilt the playing field.

Recent Wikileaks revelations include the fact that the Clinton campaign, with the full support of President Obama, has been sending out provocateurs to Trump rallies to incite violence. The object, of course, is to get the media vermin to react with their usual knee-jerk simplicity and assume that Trump supporters are angry, mouth-breathing/knuckle-dragging/belligerent neanderthals (Oh, and did I mention the media thinks they all live in trailer parks, drive rusty Astro vans and drink PBR?). Anything the media can do to promote the false narrative that Trump and his supporters are violent, vicious people, they will do it.

It's also worth noting that Algorithm --- er, AL GORE -- bitterly and doggedly contested the results of the 2000 presidential election. He fought tooth and nail for weeks, desperately trying to change the rules of the game and strong-arm judges and elected officials to rule in his favor regarding tainted or incomplete ballots. Several months after the Supreme Court put a stop to this banana republic-like behavior, even a few mainstream news organizations such as CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Associated Press conducted thorough analyses of the ballots and declared that G.W. Bush won fair and square. But I certainly don't recall the high-horse leftists of the media denouncing Big Al for his petulant refusal to concede defeat until many weeks later. Selective indignation for the American media? SHOCKING!

Aside from the blatant overreaction to that Trump statement, I have to note something that really jumped out at me, and it was not the usual Hillary lies (her lying is such an intrinsic part of her entire being, it must be controlled by her medulla, the part of the brain that regulates involuntary muscular movement such as the heartbeat and breathing). What was disturbing, in a creepy, evil way, was the phony, plastic smile Hillary kept showing -- unnaturally and for extended stretches -- even while The Donald was harshly lambasting her for bad policies, lies and corruption. This woman is mentally ill, I do believe. Her physical ailments have attracted a lot of attention, but her dark soul and evil psyche are probably in an even more -- forgive me -- DEPLORABLE state.

Overall, I'd said The Donald won the debate, but not by a landslide that was easily achievable if he hadn't failed to swing at several slow pitches right over the plate. Hey, he's not a natural politician, and we can't expect him to function with the effortless, phony ease of a veteran pol.

But on to the next couple of weeks...

As my co-blogger has noted, the polls can be notoriously wrong. Hillary was favored by 20 points over Bernie Sanders in the March Democrat primary in Michigan, and the gadfly socialist beat her. And let's not forget last summer, when the so-called experts and oddsmakers were assuring us Great Britain would vote to remain in the European Union. Nope. BREXIT!

Here's something to note about national opinion polls, and then I would like to wrap up by discussing voter turnout. Consider that in Deep Blue states such as California and New York, Hillary's percentage lead over Trump must be enormous -- perhaps 20 percent or higher. Yet nationally, she's up roughly 4 to 11 percent, according to many polls. (A few polls actually show Trump ahead, but they are the exception.)

So... If massive leads in several big, liberal states are shrunk three-fold when figured into the national polls, doesn't that mean that in battleground states she's not doing well, and in red states she's getting creamed? Probably. The sentiment of 65 percent to 70 percent of the people is that our nation is on the wrong track. If I were in Hillary's campaign, I would be deeply concerned about that.

As for turnout, many of the polls are based on the assumption that those polled will actually show up to cast their ballots. But I suspect a fair number of them won't. And the voters Hillary most needs -- blacks, hispanics and millennials, are not likely to support her nearly as much as they supported Barack Obama. Because, as much as I despise Obama's policies, ideology and infernal arrogance and egotism, I will grant that the man has the ability to exhibit charisma. What else could explain his 55 percent approval rating?

But Hillary and charisma are two words that don't belong in the same sentence, let alone the same galaxy. She has the charisma of a plumber, a garbage man, or a pit bull. Millions of struggling blacks and hispanics are likely to realize that their lives have not improved under 8 years of Obama (and in many cases, have worsened), and take up Donald Trump on his rhetorical question: "What have you got to lose by voting for me?"

So the depression that sometimes plagues me this time of year, when the days are gray, night closes in earlier and leaves rot in the gutter with frequent gloomy rainfall -- this melancholy shall not prevail. I believe there is hope. And even if Hillary wins, there are steps conservatives can take to fight like hell. Believe it or not, all is not lost, even with a victory by this loathsome woman. I will elaborate in a few days.